The Demand Efficiency Podcast

Podcast

Audio

Demand Generation

Growth

Skilljar CEO, Sandi Lin, on her evolution as a leader and lessons learned

Episode outline:

00:34 What does Skilljar do?

01:56 How skills have evolved over time and how Sandi has evolved as an engineer leading a company as CEO

07:45 The moment Sandi decided to pull back and bring in leadership, sales and marketing

10:55 Can Sandi pack them to revenue or is it some other qualitative factor?

16:58 What would Sandi avoid, when starting her next company?

21:37 What gets Sandi really jazzed about this next revenue sprint fresh capital in the bank

23:15 People that helped Sandi get to where she is today


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The Demand Efficiency Podcast

Podcast

Audio

Demand Generation

Growth

In this episode, Elias Rubel is joined by Andrew Ettinger, an entrepreneurial and truly elite level sales executive helping best of breed technology companies scale, grow and succeed in the marketplace.

Andrew is a true, born and bred modern executive sales leader who leverages an astute business mind to deliver systems to organizations such that significant business outcomes are realized by the customer. He implements and firmly believes in the modern approach of measuring the Key Moments. They are pain, conversations (not pitch!), diagnose, trade, orchestrate, impact, and grow. A 10% improvement in this simple process over these 7 moments can deliver a 2x increase in ARR and a 10x increase in realized impact for the customer.

Episode Outline

[02:39] Andrew’s background

[04:16] Flexibility in mindset and not getting stuck in your ways

[08:13] Understanding that there's no problem with making mistakes. Learn and apply the lessons learned as you go forward.

[10:22] List of regulations from California

[11:18] On developing self awareness, self reflection, and deep introspection

[12:04] Technical evangelism and doing deep workshops that benefit the organization

[14:34] Privacy as a first class citizen and why that matters

[16:35] What works to instrument the workflows into production processes

[17:04] Navigating the turbulent waters of the enterprise

Andrew's Inspirations

Scott Yara

Jo Otto

Jill Rowley

Mark Roberge


Connect with Andrew

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